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Elytron Pavilion
The Elytron Pavilion was constructed using two six-axis industrial robots to wind fibres between custom-made steel frame effectors. (Photo and video © ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart)
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The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) headed by Prof. Achim Menges and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Knippers are faculties of the University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning. Their collaboration includes a series of temporary research pavilions that are focused on biomimetic design strategies for performative morphology in architecture.
The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart have been conceptualising and constructing an ongoing series of research pavilions. These structures are products of collaborations between a multitude of disciplines – including biologists, paleontologists, architects and engineers from a broad spectrum of educational institutions throughout Germany.
The aim is to research and analyse natural fibre composite shells within biological organisms.Technologies modelled on these natural design strategies are then used to generate innovative robotic fabrication methods for fibre-reinforced polymer structures – the best of which are constructed as pavilions each year. The most recent building came out of a biomimetic investigation of beetle wing cases, known as elytrons. By analysing the composition of these tiny naturally-engineered structures, the team was able to decipher and identify a geometric doubled-layered system and translate it into an otherworldly piece of architecture. I (ltv)
Bionic Eleytron Research Pavilion, University of Stuttgart, 2014.
(Photo © ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart)
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